I’m starting a website to help represent the local businesses in my area. I’m also hoping to help attract new business to move in, especially manufacturing and other heavy industries. Our city websites do a semi-decent job at it, but since they’re a municipal entity, they’re very restricted, boring and humble.
I need to be able to offer a lot on this website, as I’m going to have google ads on it (tastefully placed) and may offer special placement or features for those who want to use it as a form of advertisement later. But for right now, I need to get the hits, get the site busy, and prove to everyone how much it’s worth.
I’ll be giving away free one-page ads and banner spots to begin with if businesses send me information and pics to add to the site. I know at first I’ll need to go look for them and take my own pictures, but eventually it’ll turn around my direction.
So, here’s the list of what I think I need. Please let me know if you can think of anything else that will help local businesses compete and help bring in new business:
About Our City
Tax Rates
Demographics
Meeting Facilities (going to find a way to make commission off of sales through my site)
Local Weather
Newsletter (Weekly – I’ll put this together myself – six pages probably. No ad space yet.)
News feeds from local news websites.
Local business articles (as described above).
This just doesn’t seem like enough… Maybe some free listing of commercial properties for Realtors? I suppose residential, too, as the workers have to live somewhere.
Thanks in advance!
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